Napoleon received a scholarship to study at a military school in Brienne. Then he went on to the École Militaire in Paris. Napoleon’s main education came from reading books, particularly those about Julius Caesar. Napoleon believed that he had been Julius Caesar, Alexander and Charlemagne in past lives. While it is outlandish that he believed this, nothing else explains how a poor Corsican could just step into the supreme office of France and then just blow everyone away with his amazing leadership skills.
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